Kennedy & Violich to Update the Hayden Library at MIT
The Hayden Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is undergoing an interior renovation at the hand of Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA).
January 10, 2020
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David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ Reimagined for Cello
Cellist Maya Beiser and composer Evan Ziporyn join us to discuss the new album, Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar, which comes out today, January 10.
January 10, 2020
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Women’s Music
Hear the sounds of ancient and modern female composers in January
January 9, 2020
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Maya Beiser Reimagines Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ As Gorgeous Cello Piece: Premiere
Like so many others, Maya Beiser was “obsessed” with David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, when it came out in January 2016.
January 9, 2020
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Kennedy & Violich Architecture are redeveloping the interior of MIT’s Hayden Library
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Hayden Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is about to receive a significant interior renovation.
January 9, 2020
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UCSB Faculty to Perform Music by Composer Elena Ruehr
UCSB Music faculty members will present works by composer Elena Ruehr, including two world premieres, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.
January 8, 2020
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Books: How Harold Edgerton Saw the Unseen
Sixty-three years ago, on the evening of Jan. 10, 1957, Harold Edgerton set a 4,000-volt electronic flash of his own design to the right of a small, shallow pool of milk in his “Strobe Lab” at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continued
January 8, 2020
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‘Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar’ by Maya Beiser Review: Tribute to a Rock Icon
The cellist reworks and expands David Bowie’s final album.
January 7, 2020
https://www.galeriemagazine.com/
Christian Louboutin on the Lamp That Shaped His Career
Ahead of a major exhibition at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, the famed designer shares the object that inspired him to start his shoe company
January 6, 2020
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16 Art Exhibits Worth Leaving The House For This Winter
From Tschabalala Self’s colorful recreations of the black female form at the ICA to the opening of the MAAM, Boston’s newest contemporary art museum, here are a few winter exhibits that have me looking on the bright side.
January 6, 2020
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MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER APPOINTS NATALIE BELL CURATOR
The MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced today that Natalie Bell has been named its next curator of exhibitions.
January 6, 2020
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MIT Art Center Hires Natalie Bell, Rising New York Curator, to Oversee Exhibitions Program
After its last curator, Henriette Huldisch, departed to take a top position at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, a closely watched art space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has picked a significant figure in New York to fill … Continued
January 6, 2020
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The Year in Screens: The Defining Moving-Image and Digital Works of 2019
Gretchen Bender and Ericka Beckman were concerned with the representation of women in mass media, and both produced work with a cunning sense for the spectacular editing style of music videos, reality TV, and Hollywood filmmaking.
December 25, 2019
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IN “BANAL PRESENTS,” THREE BLACK ARTISTS INTERVENE IN VAST SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FROM THE PRISON SYSTEM TO EDUCATION
“Banal Presents” was the final installment in a trilogy of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art curated by Meg Onli and titled Colored People Time, after a black expression that frames a supposed lack of punctuality on the part … Continued
December 19, 2019
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Video: Minds and Hands at Work
A look inside MIT’s maker culture
December 18, 2019
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A (temporary) home for the holidays in Downtown Crossing
The space at 467 Washington St. in Downtown Crossing is prime retail real estate: It has floor-to-ceiling windows, a spacious footprint, and is just steps from the T.
December 16, 2019
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Many Shades of a Star
In Spring 2020, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee will host sharp-witted artist Sarnath Banerjee at MIT, America’s most hallowed academic ground, for a lecture on the economics of water.
December 12, 2019
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Polaroid pioneer Edwin Land pictured the artistic potential in everyone
Unfolding through technology, magic, or perhaps both, the recently taken photograph transformed from indeterminate shapes into the recognizable face of a loved one.
December 12, 2019
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At MIT’s List, Artist Becca Albee Interweaves Friendship And Horseshoe Crabs
In Becca Albee’s installation, on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center beginning Dec. 12, we are confronted with unlikely bits of ephemera that seem to hold no obvious connection.
December 5, 2019
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Textile Installation T-Serai Highlights Humanitarian Causes
‘T-Serai’ by Dr. Azra Aksamija highlights humanitarian causes including refugees, climate change, and textile overproduction. The exhibition is on view at Sharjah Museum for Islamic Civilization (SMIC) until December 7, 2019.
November 14, 2019
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The Polaroid Project, Singer-songwriter Paula Cole, and more
In the height of its popularity, Polaroid cameras allowed people to capture moments in an instant.
November 12, 2019
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In An Instant: A Commemoration of the Birth of Polaroid
On Saturday, Nov. 9, the MIT Museum held a day-long special event celebrating Polaroid — the Cambridge-born camera that captured people’s hearts from its invention to its modern day resurgence.
November 12, 2019
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Ultra-Black Is the New Black
Scientists are setting dark traps from which light cannot escape. But nature already has built a few of her own.
November 11, 2019
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The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology’ Review: Beauty, in an Instant
The Polaroid camera provided fertile ground for creative invention.
November 5, 2019
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The Polaroid Project
It’s one of the best origin stories ever: In December 1943, when his three-year old daughter asked her father why she couldn’t see—right away!—the photo he’d just taken of her, Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) thought, “Why not?”
November 5, 2019